Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this red flag warning at Feb 7, 2007, 3:00 AM EST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 7, 2007, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 7, 2007, 3:00 AM EST (08:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2007, 11:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2007, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
Counties Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 90 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1383 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS82 KMLB 070800 RFWMLB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 300 AM EST WED FEB 7 2007 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 6 PM TODAY FOR VOLUSIA...LAKE...SEMINOLE AND ORANGE COUNTIES FOR LONG DURATIONS OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... FLZ041-044>046-141-144-072300- /O.NEW.KMLB.FW.W.0007.070207T1600Z-070207T2300Z/ INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-COASTAL VOLUSIA- SOUTHERN LAKE- 300 AM EST WED FEB 7 2007 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON FOR LONG DURATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY. A SURFACE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL SETTLE ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA THIS AFTERNOON WITH LOW LEVEL WESTERLY FLOW DEVELOPING ACROSS LAKE...SEMINOLE...ORANGE AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES. DRY AIR IN THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND WEST WINDS WINDS TO AROUND 10 MPH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A FIRE WEATHER THREAT. MIN RHS ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO BETWEEN 28 AND 33 PERCENT FOR 4 TO 6 HOURS THIS AFTERNOON. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS... ...ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE FORECAST TO OCCUR IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. $$ VOLKMER
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.